“Jaegercat” writes in a discussion board on this topic: “I don’t live in the US. I’ve already responded with the counter-notification via fax, but I have no idea how to proceed from here if they don’t respond. The video that they pulled was an original work that took me around 5 months to make, that … Read more
Remarkably good news coming out of the GV community and beyond: the release of Hao Wu after five months in prison in China. (See Rebecca MacKinnon’s op-ed from April 20 in the Washington Post for more background.) Congratulations to his family and to the international community of supporters who have been pulling for him all … Read more
Bravo to Google for making its Gmail service accessible via an Arabic and a Hebrew interface (via Khaled). Fun to hear it, too, directly from one of the engineers. This translation step, which puts Gmail at 40 languages, is so essential to the use of Internet in a way that will improve lives generally, enhance … Read more
One of Berkman’s all-time great graduates, Ory Okolloh, has launched Mzalendo, which is watching over the Kenyan parliament. Subscribe to their RSS feed; bound to tell important stories, and to be an important story itself. They are “a volunteer run project whose mission is to ‘keep an eye on the Kenyan Parliament.’ The project was … Read more
Today and tomorrow, I’m up on a hill in an eastern canton of Switzerland, teaching a two-day course on cyberlaw to graduate students at the University of St. Gallen with our friend and colleague Urs Gasser. The format is a good one: a framework for each of the eight, two-hour (!) classes by the prof, … Read more